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PASSALID^. 



Genus PELOPIDES. 



Pelopides Kuw., Nov. Zool. iii, 1896, p. 229 ; Gravelv, Mem. Ind. 



Mus. vii, 1918, pp. 76, 79, 93. 

 Eriocnemis Kaup, Col. Hefteiii, 1868, p. 21. 



Type, P. gravidus Kuw. 



Range. The Indo-Malayan Region. 



Bod}' elongate, convex, and very smooth and hairless above. 

 Middle tibia densely clothed with long reddish hair above. 

 Antennal club composed of three rather short terminal lamellae 

 and three very short suj^plementary ones. Head symmetrical, 

 the supraorbital ridges united behind by the posterior ridge, 

 but not produced in front ; the two front marginal processes 

 short, broad and toothed. Supraoocipital ridge short, not 

 sharp. Pronotum without distinct median groove. Maxilla 

 with the lobes long and slender, the inner one double. Mentum 

 with the base broad and deeply grooved on each side ; ligula 

 broad, sharjily j)ointed in front ; labial palpi dilated, the 

 terminal joint not very small. 



149. Pelopides dorsalis. 



Eriocnemis dorsalis Kaup, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. xv, 1871, suppl., 



p. 41. 

 Trapezochilus dorsalis Gravely, Mem. Ind. Mus. iii, 1914, p. 247, 



pi. 13, fig. 48. 

 Phraortes nobilis Kuw., Nov. Zool. v, 1898, p. 320. 

 Trapezochilus nobilis Gravely, Mem. Ind. Mus. iii, 1914, p. 247. 



Body convex and very smooth above. Front margin of the 

 head Mdth Ijroad, three-pomted process on each side, the 

 outermost jioint at a lower level than the others. Supra- 

 orbital ridges rounded above, not sharj) in front. Supra- 

 occipital ridge short, the median elevation pear-shaped, the 

 frontal ridges bisinuate, forming a very acute-angled frontal 

 area. The pronotum is very smooth, without median groove, 

 very narrowly margined, the margin not dilated at the ends 

 in front and almost complete at the base. The lateral scar is 

 rather shortly linear. The mesonoium has a finely rugose and 

 setose area on each side. The elytra are deeply striate, the 

 dorsal intervals slightly convex, the innermost strise not 

 perceptibly punctured, the lateral striae finely but very 

 distinctly punctured and the intervals very convex. The sides 

 of the 7nentum are coarsely punctured, the median area of the 

 base smooth, but not shining. The lateral scars of the meso- 

 sternum are finely punctured and setose, and the metasternum 

 has a broad densely punctured lateral depression on each side. 



Length, 36 to 43 mm ; breadth, 13 to 15 mm. 



Tenassertm : Tavoy. Malay Peninsula. Sumatra. 

 Java. 



Type in the Darmstadt Museum. 



